{"quotes":[{"text":"We, all who live, haveA life that is livedAnd another life that is thought,And the only life we haveIt's the one that is dividedIn right or wrong.","author":"Fernando Pessoa","tags":["dreams","duality","life","poetry","thoughts"],"id":8542,"author_id":"Fernando+Pessoa"},{"text":"Through transcendence of duality, we foster greater unity in our lives, which brings about inner peace and the sprouting of unconditional LOVE.","author":"Alaric Hutchinson","tags":["consciousness","duality","growth","inner-peace","inspirational","love","psychology","rise-above","self-esteem","spiritual","unconditional-acceptance","unconditional-love","unity","wisdom","zen"],"id":8885,"author_id":"Alaric+Hutchinson"},{"text":"Are you in pain?' I asked, because I know that everything in the world that matters shows up as some kind of pain. Or pang. Joy included.","author":"Andrea Seigel","tags":["duality","feelings","ghosts","hospitals","meaning","romance","sickness"],"id":12636,"author_id":"Andrea+Seigel"},{"text":"When no discriminating thoughts arise,the old mind ceases to exist.When thought objects vanish,the thinking-subject vanishes,as when the mind vanishes, objects vanish.Things are objects because of the subject;the mind is such because of things.Understand the relativity of these two and the basic reality: the unity of emptiness.In this Emptiness the two are indistinguishable and each contains in itself the whole world.If you do not discriminate between coarse and fine you will not be tempted to prejudice and opinion.","author":"Sengcan","tags":["buddhism","chan","duality","emptiness","unity","zen"],"id":13928,"author_id":"Sengcan"},{"text":"Sir always had a thing for calves. They were soft and smooth, like all skin on a woman. But the calf flesh was backed by muscle, so there was a firmness you wouldn't find at the hips, say, or in the small of the back. But it wasn't boney like the front of the leg. No, the calf was pretty much the closest thing to the perfection of breast tissue you could touch on a woman without getting your hand slapped away.","author":"Joshua Edward Smith","tags":["breasts","calves","duality","quote","touching"],"id":18313,"author_id":"Joshua+Edward+Smith"},{"text":"The world by day is like European music; a flowing concourse of vast harmony, composed of concord and discord and many disconnected fragments. And the night world is our Indian music; one pure, deep and tender raga.","author":"Rabindranath Tagore","tags":["duality","european-music","harmony","indian-music","night-and-day","raga"],"id":26353,"author_id":"Rabindranath+Tagore"},{"text":"We are most of us two people, your Highness. There is something lacking in the man who is one thing only, and so, as he believes, at peace with the world and with himself.","author":"Robert Aickman","tags":["duality","inner-peace"],"id":29126,"author_id":"Robert+Aickman"},{"text":"If the eye never sleeps,all dreams will naturally cease.If the mind makes no discriminations, the ten thousand things are as they are,of single essence.To understand the mystery of this One essence is to be released from all entanglements.When all things are seen equallythe timeless Self-essence is reached. No comparisons or analogies are possiblein this causeless, relationless state.Consider movement stationaryand the stationary in motion,both movement and rest disappear.When such dualities cease to existOneness itself cannot exist. To this ultimate finalityno law or description applies.","author":"Sengcan","tags":["buddhism","chan","duality","emptiness","unity","zen"],"id":29717,"author_id":"Sengcan"},{"text":"From 'Wetness and Water'How does a part of the world leave the world?How can wetness leave water?Do not try to put out a fireby throwing on more fire.Do not wash a wound with blood.No matter how fast you run,your shadow more than keeps up.Sometimes it's in front.Only full, overhead sundiminishes your shadow.But that shadow has been serving you.What hurts you blesses you.Darkness is your candle.Your boundaries are your quest.","author":"Jalaluddin Rumi","tags":["duality","inspirational","self-awareness"],"id":30099,"author_id":"Jalaluddin+Rumi"},{"text":"A Strange Prayer:Dear Lord, I, the self searching illusion, has seen and experienced the outer world:relationships,success and failure,true friends, strangers and backbiters.I lived the different emotionsduring different seasons;I witnessed ups \u0026 downs,enjoyed love \u0026 hate,was good \u0026 bad,faced beauty \u0026 ugliness.There were times when I was brave,there were times when I was a coward.There were times when I was proactive,there were times when I was indecisive.After, flying high in the skies,and yet being a loser...After, being nothing \u0026 no one,and yet feeling content..I have understood the differencebetween lust and love,happiness and sadness,selfishness and selflessness.One often leads to another;another secretly carries the one!Yet I am lostbetween being and becoming.An inner voice admits thatmy heart is an unexplored realm,my mind is a prisoner to my wishful thinking,and the soul is unknown to me.Setting that unknown free... Now, this is my heartiest wish.As Saurabh Sharma,the human being,Ialwayspray to thee, ' O lord, set me free.I don't want love,I don't want to be loved;I want myself to be love itself now.That beautiful, silent and divine existence...!I want to get merged into that.Please give me wisdom and courage; Merge me into your supreme kingdom by setting my soul free.","author":"Saurabh Sharma","tags":["advaita","-saurabh-sharma","duality","god","inner-voice","lord","mind-body-spirit","non-duality","poem","poetry","prayer","quest","soul","spiritual","spirituality","unknwon"],"id":37298,"author_id":"Saurabh+Sharma"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":89,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}